Public Policy and the Law
The Great Facade: How surveillance capitalism almost toppled the world’s greatest democracy and the European Union
Posted: November 30, 2020 at 8:40 pm, Last Updated: March 29, 2021 at 7:54 pm
A simplified explanation of how it happened, why it’s likely to happen again, and what we can do about it.
A/V requirements: Internet Access, Laptop, LCD Projector, Screen, White Board, and Markers
Criminal Justice Reform: Understanding the root of the problem and the cost of the cure
Posted: November 30, 2020 at 8:35 pm, Last Updated: March 29, 2021 at 7:54 pm
How did we get here? How did the police–sworn to protect and serve their communities–come to be seen as an occupying force by disadvantaged communities throughout America? Why have they lost the faith and confidence of the communities they serve? What needs to be done to turn the tide and restore the profession of policing […]
A/V requirements: Internet Access, Laptop, LCD Projector, Screen, White Board, and Markers
Civil Death, Incarceration, and Their Effects in the United States
Posted: July 24, 2020 at 12:21 pm, Last Updated: March 29, 2021 at 7:01 pm
Mass conviction, mass incarceration, and mass disenfranchisement currently deprive millions of Americans of civil and voting rights. Civil death, while initially framed as related to a crime or infraction of law, continues to follow the formerly incarcerated to the grave. This presentation examines the backstory of these policies, the historic racial implications, interpretations of human […]
A/V requirements: LCD Projector, Screen
Mass Fatality Investigations and War Crimes
Posted: May 14, 2020 at 12:23 pm, Last Updated: March 29, 2021 at 6:36 pm
Dr. Falsetti has been deployed to many mass fatality situations including military mishaps, commercial airline mass disasters (American Eagle, TWA 800), domestic terrorism (Oklahoma City Bombing), foreign terrorism (World Trade Center), and natural disasters (GA Floods, Thai Tsunami and Haitian Earthquake). In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Anthony managed mortuaries and field teams whose mission was to […]
Forensic Anthropology and Death Investigation
Posted: May 14, 2020 at 12:21 pm, Last Updated: March 29, 2021 at 6:36 pm
Forensic anthropology is the examination of human skeletal remains for law enforcement agencies to help with the recovery of human remains, to determine the identity of unidentified human remains, interpret trauma, and estimate time since death. Physical anthropologists develop methods to evaluate bones to understand people who lived in the past. Such questions might include: […]
A/V requirements: None
Current Events
Posted: December 16, 2019 at 8:30 pm, Last Updated: December 16, 2019 at 8:31 pm
Immigration, Demographic Change, Populism, Nativism, Backlash, Minority Politics, Islam, Identity Politics, Brexit, White Working Class Voters, United States, Europe, Middle East, Policy Communication
A/V requirements: Internet, Laptop, LCD Projector, Screen
Reputation Management in Contemporary Policy Debates
Posted: August 20, 2019 at 7:17 pm, Last Updated: March 29, 2021 at 7:36 pm
Reputation management has become more complicated because of new Internet realities and practices. The contemporary media environment is conducive to the spread of negativity and misinformation in public discourse. Social media normalize subversive rhetoric and personal attacks in political discourse regarding central issues in public policy (health care, climate change, etc). It has become more […]
A/V requirements: Laptop, LCD Screen
Mexico-U.S. Relations; Organized Crime; Immigration; Border Security, and Human Trafficking
Posted: June 12, 2019 at 2:14 pm, Last Updated: March 29, 2021 at 6:28 pm
A/V requirements: Internet Access, Laptop, LCD Projector, Screen
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera
Posted: June 12, 2019 at 2:10 pm, Last Updated: March 29, 2021 at 6:27 pm
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera (Ph.D. in Political Science, The New School for Social Research) is Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University. Her areas of expertise are Mexico-US relations, organized crime, immigration, border security, and human trafficking. Her newest book is titled Los Zetas Inc.: Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War […]
Foreign Intelligence
Posted: December 18, 2018 at 8:45 pm, Last Updated: December 18, 2018 at 8:59 pm
How does the U.S. conduct foreign intelligence.
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Robert L. Deitz
Posted: December 18, 2018 at 8:43 pm, Last Updated: December 18, 2018 at 9:00 pm
Lawyer in private practice; general counsel NSA; senior councilor to the direct CIA; professor of public policy.
Implementing Policy/Practice Reform in U.S. Corrections Agencies
Posted: September 19, 2017 at 3:24 pm, Last Updated: March 29, 2021 at 7:32 pm
As organizations move scientific, scholarly research into work environments, our knowledge of implementation processes grows. However, scholars still know little about how managers and staff acquire knowledge about evidence-based or evidence-informed practices (EBPs/EIPs), how much they understand them and how they are used. This study examines how organizational actors understand, negotiate and implement reforms including EBPs in community […]
A/V requirements: LCD Projector
Danielle S. Rudes
Posted: September 19, 2017 at 3:22 pm, Last Updated: March 29, 2021 at 7:32 pm
Danielle S. Rudes, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and the Deputy Director of the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!) at George Mason University. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine. Dr. Rudes is an expert qualitative researcher whose methods include ethnographic observation, interviews, and focus groups […]
Amy Murphy
Posted: February 24, 2015 at 7:40 pm, Last Updated: March 30, 2021 at 3:10 pm
Amy Murphy, MPP, joined the Center for Advancing Correctional Excellence (ACE!) in 2009. Amy serves as Project Director for the RNR Simulation Tool, an online suite of tools that operationalizes the Risk-Need-Responsivity principles. Amy’s additional projects at ACE include SOARING 2, an eLearning curriculum for criminal justice supervision officers, JSTEPS, an implementation study on contingency […]
Why Everyone Should Care About the Problem of the Healthcare Uninsured
Posted: September 29, 2014 at 8:21 pm
The number of health care uninsured continues to grow, adding to the problem of growing health care costs, public health problems and growing business sector personnel costs. This presentation outlines the causes and consequences of health uninsurance and what public and private sector options can be used to address this complex problem.
A/V requirements: LCD, Screen
White House Czars and the Decline of Democratic Accountability
Posted: September 29, 2014 at 8:16 pm, Last Updated: March 22, 2017 at 7:19 pm
Presidents increasingly have appointed so-called czars to make policy, administer programs, and allocate budgets. The practice is controversial given that these newly created offices are not confirmed and not subject to testify. The presentation covers the history and growth of presidential use of czars and then assesses the Obama Administration’s continued and expanded use of […]
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Transportation and Air Quality
Posted: September 29, 2014 at 7:53 pm, Last Updated: January 9, 2020 at 1:08 pm
The role of transportation on regional air quality, mitigation and policy implications.
A/V requirements: None
President v. Congress: The Constitution and the Growth of Presidential Powers
Posted: September 29, 2014 at 2:10 pm, Last Updated: March 22, 2017 at 7:20 pm
An analysis of the evolution of presidential powers and what Congress can do to check presidents who overreach their authority.
A/V requirements: Laptop, LCD, Screen
Poverty, Inequality, and Conflict
Posted: September 29, 2014 at 1:45 pm, Last Updated: March 29, 2021 at 7:30 pm
How do poverty and inequality generate violent conflict even in a wealthy nation like the U.S.A.? What can be done to alter or eliminate the root causes of crime, structural violence, and war? This lecture brings the insights of conflict analysis and resolution to bear on an increasingly critical domestic problem.
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Highways, Land Use, Transit and Transportation Policy, Planning & Finance
Posted: September 26, 2014 at 7:09 pm, Last Updated: March 29, 2021 at 6:40 pm
Transportation funding, finance, the Interstate Highway System, intelligent transportation systems (ITS), transportation and land use, technological standardization, and information systems strategic planning, infrastructure banks, secondary road policy, transportation planning and urban development, environmental impact, and decision making.
A/V requirements: Laptop, LCD, Screen
Health Policy
Posted: September 26, 2014 at 7:01 pm, Last Updated: July 23, 2019 at 6:27 pm
Health Care Reform. Professor Alison Cuellar can address the following topics regarding health care reform: health care merger, private health insurance, employer provided health insurance, medicare, medicaid, mental health and substance abuse treatment.
A/V requirements: None
Financial Regulations
Posted: September 26, 2014 at 6:04 pm
Current federal and state regulations of financial services companies and their impact on financial institution and market performance.
A/V requirements: Internet, Laptop, LCD, Screen